There’s only so much to take from a preseason opener, and the Philadelphia Union made that task easier by cobbling together a thoroughly forgettable performance in their season debut Saturday.

The task today when the Union take on Columbus Crew in the second game of the Walt Disney World Pro Soccer Classic is as much to move on from Saturday’s dour 1-1 draw with Orlando City as it is to build from.

“It was our first real chance to play an opponent,” manager John Hackworth said Sunday in an interview on the Union’s website. “We use it as an evaluation tool to see if a lot of things that we’ve been working on the last three weeks, if we can put that into a game against an opponent. And that’s always a little shaky the first time you do that. So there were some good things. There were probably more bad things than good things.”

In the Crew, the Union have a chance to square off against MLS competition, but the way they struggled with USL Pro side Orlando City in the opener makes the challenge look more daunting.

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The draw with Orlando was much of what you’d expect from a team trying to incorporate several new additions. The starters who played the first hour of the match were disjointed in attack, unable to get much going in the final third, and the defense was disorganized at times.

For what it’s worth, the goal the Union allowed — scored by Orlando City’s Dennis Chin after he pounced on a botched passing exchange between goalie Zac MacMath and captain Brian Carroll in the box — is one Hackworth is ready to write off as an aberration, a necessary consequence of preseason growing pains.

“We had a mixup on the goal, but I’m not worried about that at all,” Hackworth said. “If anything, that’s probably my fault because I was telling them, I don’t care if they’re pressing, I want you to roll it out of the back; I want you to try to play.”

The star for the Union was Supplemental Draft pick Leo Fernandes, who scored a beautifully composed goal late in the game to peg back the Lions and earn the draw. Along with the likes of Roger Torres and Antoine Hoppenot, Fernandes helped breathe new life into the game when Hackworth made wholesale changes of his squad. Whether that translates into time with the first team in game No. 2 remains to be seen.

“The guys who came in in the second group played well,” Hackworth said. “Again there were some good things, there were some things that weren’t so good. But there are things to work on and go forward in the next couple of games. I think any rookie that comes in and makes plays in games, that’s all you can really ask for. (Leo) has been good in training. He has a lot of qualities that we like and we look for in guys on our team, and then to actually execute that in the game, very important. I’m happy for him and happy for that second group to pull one back and get a draw in that game.”

The game is available online through MLS.com and philaunion.com. Kickoff is at 1 p.m.